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Shutdown virtually halts CDC flu surveillance
As the government shutdown moves toward its second week, there’s virtually no activity in the federal labs in Atlanta where, each fall, researchers test thousands of samples of flu virus. As the season of coughs, sneezes and sniffles kicks into gear, boxes of samples sent from across the country to ...
Georgians find unpleasant surprises in shutdown
Todd Hill didn’t think his environmental planning business would feel the hammer of the federal shutdown. After all, most of his work is on state road projects.But 15 minutes after starting work Tuesday, Hill got an unpleasant surprise. The federal websites his Atlanta staff relies on almost daily for information ...
Joy, relief, questions greet kidnapped teen's return
Even as joy and relief greeted the homecoming of kidnapping victim Ayvani Perez, authorities acknowledged that one of the suspects arrested Wednesday had been arrested last year on drug charges with the girl’s mother. The fact that the girl’s mother knew one of the suspects seems to conflict with the ...
Footloose bovine captured (and that’s no bull)
The bull has been captured, and upon further inspection, it is not a bull at all. The animal, now revealed to be female, was caught at about 3:30 p.m. Monday after it wandered into a pen built to ensnare it. For months it has created a stir – and even ...
Footloose bovine captured (and that’s no bull)
The bull has been captured, and upon further inspection, it is not a bull at all. The animal, now believed to be a cow, was caught at about 3:30 p.m. Monday after it wandered into a pen built to ensnare it. For months it has been creating a stir – ...
Bovine menaces interstates (and that’s no bull)
A bull has no place on an interstate. Can we all agree on that? Good — because there’s been little agreement on what to do about the bull that’s been loose for the past six months on a wooded tract at the intersection of I-75 and I-675, near the border ...
Georgia’s Medicaid, PeachCare ranks still on the rise
More than three years after the Great Recession officially ended, a record 1.8 million Georgians are enrolled in Medicaid and the state’s child health insurance program, the latest state figures show. That’s nearly one in five residents. The two programs, funded by a combination of federal and state dollars, are ...
“I tried to do the man thing”
Having handled classified documents in the military, Dayna Walker’s reaction to the news that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning had given thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks was swift and final. “I was disgusted,” says the 46-year-old Stockbridge resident. But when Manning said he felt he was a woman trapped in ...
For Atlanta, too, 1963 was “turbulent, decisive”
Bette Graves Thomas remembers 1963 as the year her family couldn’t turn left on Peyton Road. Thomas was 17 when Atlanta’s mayor placed barricades across the road between a black and white neighborhood. “I remember it being inconvenient,” said Thomas, now 67. She also saw it, rightly, as a message ...
Change of heart: Hospital agrees to put teen on transplant list
Faced with a public relations nightmare, officials at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reversed course Tuesday, putting 15-year-old Anthony Stokes on the waiting list for a heart transplant.That decision came only days after officials at Children’s Egleston hospital wrote a letter saying he would not be listed as a candidate because ...
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